Bfriedli said:
curl-6 said:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000359.htm?mobile=nocontent
If the students had not been vaccinated, those 21 cases could have been 200, and more severe ones as well, as even diminished immunity is associated with milder illness.
This case is an example of herd immunity limiting the scope of an outbreak.
Measles IS a deadly disease. It killed 145,000 people in 2013 alone; about 400 every day. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/
From your link:
"About 1 in 1,000 people with measles get encephalitis, a serious brain infection. Measles illness during pregnancy can cause early labor, miscarriage, and low birth weight infants. Measles in people with AIDS or weak immune systems can be very severe. In the U.S. people can still die from measles (about 2 per 1,000, usually related to pneumonia or encephalitis)."
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Lol. Limiting the outbreak, true but this shows it doesn't work!! Sorry to typo 5% too, not 50%.
Again for the millionth time, talking about USA NOT WORLD NUMBERS!! We have acess to medical and extremly cleaner living condition. And in the USA there has been around 1800 cases in the last 15 years. So 1 person in the last 15 years got encephalitis. Compared to over 100 deaths from the measles vacine. JUST CLARIFYING AGAIN USA ONLY.
http://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html
http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/opinion-search
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How about you take a look over to Germany to see where we could go if we allow vaccination rates to drop. There are about 122-2308 cases of measles each year in Germany, some fatal, and the population of the USA is about 4x theirs. This would mean rates equivalent to 500-9000 cases each year. According to curl's stats, 1/1000 get encephalitis and 2/1000 cases are fatal (in the US). This would mean a rate of about 1-18 deaths per year if we allow vaccination rates to drop. Germany isn't some third world country...
http://www.dw.de/measles-rise-sparks-vaccine-debate-in-germany/a-16932413
In just the last 4 months in Germany, there have been 375 cases of measles...this is a real problem
http://www.dw.de/berlin-outbreak-blasts-hopes-of-eradicating-measles-in-germany-by-2015/a-18235648
PS: In some limited number of cases, the vaccine doesn't result in full immunity, which is just another reason why herd immunity is important. We need to keep our percentages above the herd immunity threshold to protect those who can't get vaccinated and those who didn't gain full immunity.
